The term 'television set' includes any TV monitor or other video peripheral capable of displaying PAL or NTSC video signals. Display on PAL/SECAM televisions will be perfect whereas the display on SECAM televisions will be monochrome.

Output device connection explains how to connect your television to your graphics board. Please note that your television set must be properly connected to your 3D Prophet III Titanium 500 graphics board in order to gain access to these options.

You may also modify the resolution and color properties. The choices available depend entirely on the choices available in the standard Windows Display Properties dialog box.

Once the switch has taken place, Windows will prompt you to accept the changes.

 

TV display problems

The following list of questions and answers aims to resolve any eventual problems with your TV display:

The television has no picture

  1. Double-check the connections you have made (PC and TV).
  2. Check that the TV is switched on.
  3. Make sure you have selected the video input channel on your TV.

The TV image is scrambled

  1. Check that the TV is switched to PAL (in
  2. SECAM mode the image may well be of lesser quality).
  3. It may be necessary to select the video input a second time with some televisions where the video input has already been selected before connecting your graphics boards.

The TV image flickers or is illegible

  1. Decrease the refresh rate of your graphics board. To do this:
  1. TV images do not have the same resolutions as PC monitor images. Furthermore, a television picture is interlaced, which makes it less readable. You are not advised to try to read your menus in 800x600 or 1024x768, but rather to select 640x480 together with a large font. To do this, follow these instructions: